man btmaketorrentgui (Commandes) - GUI program to generate torrent info files for bittorrent

NAME

btmaketorrentgui - GUI program to generate torrent info files for bittorrent

SYNOPSIS

btmaketorrentgui

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the btmaketorrentgui command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

btmaketorrentgui is a GUI interface to btmakemetafile, it generates the torrent info files which are distributed to bittorrent clients (usually via the WWW) in order to inform them where the designated tracker for the torrent is located, and to allow them to verify the file's contents.

btmaketorrentgui does not require arguments like btmakemetafiles does, everything is done in the GUI interface. The first box in the GUI is the file that the torrent info file will be generated for, the second is the "announce" address of a tracker (ex. http://my.tracker:6969/announce). The third box is for a list of announces, separated by commas or whitespace and on several lines, this is not required. Additionally, you can set a piece size or an optional comment.

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AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net> and was based on the manual page for btmakemetafile written for the bittorrent package by Michael Janssen <jamuraa@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).